[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12034-12035]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                             ENERGY PRICES

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Madam Speaker, this weekend, the national average of a 
gallon of gasoline broke the $4 mark. This is an all-time high, and our 
citizens deserve action from Congress.
  The Democratic leadership needs to pull their heads out of the sand 
and join us in developing a strong national energy policy. The 
Republican plan proposed will develop and increase our domestic supply 
of oil, which will drive down the cost of gasoline at the pump. In 
Louisiana, we take great pride in our offshore drilling, and we drill 
in an environmentally safe way. Everyone in Louisiana knows that the 
best place to fish is right next to an oil rig in the Gulf.
  I call on Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress to stop 
locking relief at the pump and finally join us in passing legislation 
that will remove the obstacles that limit our refining capacity, 
explore alternative sources of energy, and increase the supply of 
domestic oil and gas to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
  These are all policies which will lower gas prices. This energy 
crisis is real. The time for Congress to act is now.

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